2024 Blog Redo
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Read More: 2025: dawn of a new practiceAlex: Good morning, Gavin. It’s Saturday, January 4th, somewhat early in the morning. We are in bed having a lazy morning but you agreed to be my guinea pig for…
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Read More: an accounting: 4 questions and 21 audiences @ the new yearFirst thing first: did you know I am pretty sporty? I mean, nothing like my Grandma Janet, who was actually a tennis pro (and my mother and I think younger…
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Read More: an audience of gay menI entered Julius (N.Y.’s “oldest gay bar”) still buzzing from Cult of Love, the Broadway play that I had just seen with Gavin: a cutting and intense Connecticut WASP Christmas…
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Read More: festival of lights: 2nd time’s a charmWe were sitting in a circle at a late point in the evening. We were together at an intimate Hanukkah party at the home of my friends Chloe and James.…
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Read More: white heads, Black filmI love a matinee: a movie theater spattered by cineastes, the retired, and other seekers. When I joined said audience everyday for a month in June/July 1999 at the Regency…
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Read More: forgetful and respectfulMy Mom is having a harder time remembering the schedule for each day. My child Simone (Ess) and I joined her at 4 pm on the 23rd to go to…
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Read More: the audience as villageAt the end of her delightful “crazy avant-garde flashback,” Give Me Carmelita Tropicana, at the Soho Rep, Alina Troyana/Carmelita Tropicana breaks the fourth wall and walks right up to the…
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Read More: spirit captureI went to this performance from a chaise lounge in my living room in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where I am also writing now. From here, I can see my laptop screen,…
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Read More: In attendance: audience as transpersonalYesterday, I attended a screening at the Psychedelic Film and Music Festival. On his email invitation, I went to see my Brooklyn College’s Film Department colleague, Mustapha Khan‘s new documentary,…
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Read More: audience in context: praise, sorrow, hisses & shoutsIt goes without saying that a work of art shifts depending on where and how you engage it. The same is true for the audience. At Edges of Ailey at…